Back Up
finally...
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 by Uvah | Discussion: Personal Computing
After a couple of months saving up I finally got a 1TB Seagate backup for my laptop. Right now I'm doing a full system backup, a little over two hours to complete. It wasn't expensive, 74.00(USD), but its a lot on a fixed income. Fortunately all my bills are current, up to date, no arrears. I make sure all of that happens before anything else. So now no more worries. I'm using EaseUS ToDo for the backup. To me that's one big relief.
Reply #2 Tuesday, October 6, 2015 1:10 PM
What do you both use the free or home version which is $29.99
Reply #3 Tuesday, October 6, 2015 1:24 PM
I use the free version of EaseUS ToDo and it's very easy. Now I can not atest to how well the software performs as I have not had to do a recovery of my hard drive from the back up, but I have the backup in case the situation ever presents itself. 
Reply #4 Tuesday, October 6, 2015 2:30 PM
I am using the paid home version. I have also had to use restore once or twice, and it work perfectly.
Reply #5 Tuesday, October 6, 2015 2:41 PM
Thank you for the info. I worry about limitations on most free stuff. I have everything I would need backed up. But not the entire system. Thinking about a total reformat. would load my stuff on and then do a backup.
Reply #6 Tuesday, October 6, 2015 3:22 PM
I use Easeus To Do Workstation. It's an older version, but still does what I need!
Doc hooked me up back when he had some kind of deal with Easeus and they gave him some giveaways to pass out.
Thanks Doc! Works great!
Reply #7 Tuesday, October 6, 2015 4:33 PM
A full system backup, file backup and a disk/partition backup. All my programs are on a flash drive. Now they have have a backup too. I have the free version. Had the workstation awhile back from the same deal but lost it. No matter now that I don't have to worry about it.
Reply #8 Tuesday, October 6, 2015 9:46 PM
The problem I have with every backup software I've tried, including Easus, is that none will scan their catalogs to help you find a backup set containing a particular file. If I notice a file is missing I have to check each backup set until I find the one before the file was deleted. I wrote minicomputer backup software 30 years ago that could find the set or sets containing a file.
Reply #9 Tuesday, October 6, 2015 9:47 PM
The problem I have with every backup software I've tried, including Easeus, is that none will scan their catalogs to help you find a backup set containing a particular file
. If I notice a file is missing I have to check each backup set until I find the one before the file was deleted. I wrote minicomputer backup software 30 years ago that could find the set or sets containing a file. 
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Reply #1 Tuesday, October 6, 2015 12:38 PM
Same backup software I am using Ross, works great too!